Ropalospora chlorantha
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Ropalospora chlorantha
The fruiting bodies of the lichen
The needle like spores, although few and far between, are within the fruiting bodies.
This lichen grows on a rock. Cuz it’s awesome, lichens can also grow on metal structures, they’re coming for us. Lichen grow on a variety of substrate, they don’t really care and people can use them as decoration in terrariums and things almost like a moss. It’s hard to believe they can receive any nutrients from these sorts of substrates, but probably due to their close relationship with algae they can mange.
- PLP847_2018_8
- CollectionDate: 10-6-18
- Collector: Anna Stouffer-Hopkins
- Taxonomy:
- Phylum: Ascomycota
- Class: Ascomycetes
- Order: Teloschistales
- Family: Fuscideaceae
- Genus_species: Ropalospora chlorantha
- Genus: Ropalospora
- Species: chlorantha
- Authority: (Tuckerman) S. Ekman1848
- Location: Dane county, Wisconsin USA
- Latitude: 43.1194° N
- Longitude: 89.6864° W
- Elevation: 297
- Habitat: In a deciduous forest clearing on a small mountain cliff over looking soy bean fields
- Substrate: Rock
- Macro-Description: Tiny black dots( fruiting bodies) covering the rock with a green thallus
- Micro-description: Needle like spores with a green thallus that is spread over the rock surface with black perithica interspersed with the thallus
This Species is not known to be in this part of Wisconsin but it is the only lichen in the key that has all of the characteristics of this lichen
Rationale for ID: Keyed out using morphology
